When the team studied the eagle’s behaviour, they noticed that the bird employed a useful trick to buy more time to grab its prey. The eagle would sweep its legs and claws backwards as its talons closed on a fish, so there was no need to slow down.

The team have mimicked the eagle’s strategy by attaching a 3D-printed, three-fingered claw to a 10-centimetre-long motorised leg. With the appendage fixed below its centre of mass, the drone can snatch a stationary object as it flies by.

Also at Drexel apparently they’re working on software that allows flying robots to reconfigure the load they pick up so they can fly more easily. But don’t worry, they probably won’t eat you.

If you put that much work into a fake video of a fake eagle snatching a kid, the kid had better be fake, too. Like about fifteen feet up, the kid rips a mask off and it’s Peter Dinklage, and we get Peter Dinklage beating a robot eagle back to Earth.